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10 Best Movies Like Poor Boy

If you loved Poor Boy, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
If I Stay

If I Stay

2014★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Poor Boy for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Mia Hall, a talented young cellist, thought the most difficult decision she would ever have to make would be whether to pursue her musical dreams at prestigious Juilliard or follow...

#2
Awakenings

Awakenings

1990★ 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Poor Boy for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patient to receive the controversia...

#3
The Dead Zone

The Dead Zone

1983★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Poor Boy for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years....

#4
Ghost Stories

Ghost Stories

2018★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Poor Boy for fans of Drama. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Professor Philip Goodman devotes his life to exposing phony psychics and fraudulent supernatural shenanigans. His skepticism soon gets put to the test when he receives news of thre...

#5
Breakthrough

Breakthrough

2019★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Poor Boy for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Tragedy strikes when a woman named Joyce's son falls through the ice on a frozen lake and is trapped underwater for over 15 minutes. After being rushed to the hospital, the 14-year...

#6
The Prodigy

The Prodigy

2019★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Poor Boy for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A mother concerned about her young son's disturbing behavior thinks something supernatural may be affecting him....

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